Media coverage of the growing Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has presented world audiences with apocalyptic predictions of ultimate death tolls and grisly imaginings of its spread to…

The risk to the Australian community from doctors and nurses returning from Ebola-affected countries is minimal.
EPA/ARIE KIEVITOctober 28, 2014

Governments have a duty to protect their citizens but the plan to impose mandatory detention on health-care workers being suggested by some Australian states is excessive and unwarranted. On Monday, the…